"A book of authentic Indian recipes"..."Authentic Mughlai recipes"...the list of "authentic" recipe books is endless. Authentic is a very relative term. Even if the list of ingredients is the same, the quantity of each ingredient is increased or decreased as per one's taste. This means that while a recipe can be handed down from one person/generation to another, every person who makes the preparation based on the recipe adds his/her own touch to it. It could be adding a pinch of sugar or lime juice or replacing 5 green chillies with 3 green and 2 red chillies and so on.
So who determins what is authentic? Unless a recipe is invented by someone, who alone knows the original taste of the preparation, I am not exactly sure what authentic implies...You could add on your 'Authentic" thoughts too...
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